Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
But as the wise man said, life’s too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.
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AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
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Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
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Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
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Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.
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They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman.
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And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.
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Around 15, 16, I started not really wanting to be famous. I just loved acting, loved trying to make emotions clear to people.
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The sense in which an automatic door 'understands instructions' from its photoelectric cell is not at all the sense in which I understand English.
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A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.
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In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.
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But as the wise man said, life’s too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.
